Quotes About Self-expression

We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.

I Play When I Want to Play.

Yo, why can't I speak out and then have fun? Why can't I just be a human? Why can't I just do what I want? People just want to keep you in one type of box or lane.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

I feel like whenever you dress for someone else you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.